People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books. Walter Mosley More Quotes by Walter Mosley More Quotes From Walter Mosley I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub. Walter Mosley bathtubs reading water This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition. Walter Mosley criticism expectations writing ... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events. Walter Mosley writing character blood ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that. Walter Mosley love-you song book I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin. Walter Mosley suicide fear rooms The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest. Walter Mosley fear dream running Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all. Walter Mosley survival blind ifs Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with Walter Mosley rest-easy easy My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world. Walter Mosley writing jobs people I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about. Walter Mosley normal stories writing I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again. Walter Mosley kind worry laughing I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given. Walter Mosley careers dying worry All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. Walter Mosley one-day literature today Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway beyond themselves. That's what great literature is. Walter Mosley falling-in-love fighting adventure I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world. Walter Mosley writing world thinking Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. Walter Mosley growing writing book The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through. Walter Mosley writing morning book My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there's not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back. Walter Mosley connections personality people The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature. Walter Mosley writing talking book Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. Walter Mosley kind book fiction
